Jurg
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jʊʁk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jurg is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 108K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.7M
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.1Kas Juerg
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jurg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 named Juerg, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Juerg in UA Ukraine, AT Austria, LI Liechtenstein and Jürg in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jurg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #32 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Jurg | 97 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Jürg | 53 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Jurg | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Jurg | 84 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Juerg | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 85 | 1 in 203K | 148 | Jurg | 22 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 5 | Juerg | 11 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #21 | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Juerg | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jürgen Moserb. 1928CHnot in their usual nameGerman mathematician (1928–1999)
- Jürgen Habermasb. 1929DEnot in their usual nameGerman sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)
- Udo Jürgensb. 1934ATnot in their usual nameAustrian singer and composer (1934–2014)
- Jürgen Prochnowb. 1941DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor
- Jürgen Grabowskib. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (1944–2022)
- Jürgen Klinsmannb. 1964DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer and manager
- Jürgen Kohlerb. 1965DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer
- Jürgen Kloppb. 1967DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football manager (born 1967)
- Jürgen Vogelb. 1968DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor, producer and singer
- Jürgen Melzerb. 1981ATnot in their usual nameAustrian tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 85 | #4,863 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 72 | #9,616 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Jurg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Juerg in Switzerland, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Jurg?
- A machine transcription gives /jʊʁk/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Jurg a male or female name?
- Jurg is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Jurg?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 85 people named Jurg, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
- How common is Jurg compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Jurg is the 32nd most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jurg?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jurgThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jurg” — the 32nd most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.